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+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2010, Dean Cording'
+'''
+abc.net.au/news
+'''
+import re
+from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class ABCNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title                  = 'ABC News'
+    __author__             = 'Dean Cording'
+    description            = 'News from Australia'
+    masthead_url           = 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/assets/v5/images/common/logo-news.png'
+    cover_url              = 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/assets/v5/images/common/logo-news.png'
+
+    oldest_article         = 2
+    max_articles_per_feed  = 100
+    no_stylesheets         = False
+    #delay                  = 1
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    encoding               = 'utf8'
+    publisher              = 'ABC News'
+    category               = 'News, Australia, World'
+    language               = 'en_AU'
+    publication_type       = 'newsportal'
+    preprocess_regexps     = [(re.compile(r'<!--.*?-->', re.DOTALL), lambda m: '')]
+    conversion_options = {
+                             'comments'        : description
+                            ,'tags'            : category
+                            ,'language'        : language
+                            ,'publisher'       : publisher
+                            ,'linearize_tables': False
+                         }
+
+    keep_only_tags    =  dict(id='article')
+
+    remove_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':['related', 'tags']}),
+                     dict(id='statepromo')
+                        ]
+
+    remove_attributes = ['width','height']
+
+    feeds          = [
+                      ('Top Stories', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/syndicate/topstoriesrss.xml'),
+                      ('Canberra', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/idx-act/rss.xml'),
+                      ('Sydney', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/sydney/rss.xml'),
+                      ('Melbourne', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/melbourne/rss.xml'),
+                      ('Brisbane', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/brisbane/rss.xml'),
+                      ('Perth', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/perth/rss.xml'),
+                      ('Australia', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/idx-australia/rss.xml'),
+                      ('World', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/world/rss.xml'),
+                      ('Business', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/business/rss.xml'),
+                      ('Science and Technology', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/tag/science-and-technology/rss.xml'),
+                    ]